Judge's Lodging

The location is fantastic, though it does tend to get a bit lively with noise during the night.Great place.

Beautiful hotel in an excellent location, close to the train station and the city centre. The staff are all lovely and our room was beautiful with all the amenities we could need. Will definitely be staying again.

Not 5* and expensive for being in a sound box. The "Terrace" rooms are noisy during the day with bar customer's using the area immediately outside of the rooms to smoke and talk loudly in groups. This was encouraged by a separating door to the bar being deliberately kept open (using a heavy plant pot) by some staff, even though reception staff kept closing it. Overall, it was impossible to rest in afternoon with the bed just less than some 10 feet away from the noise / smoke coming from outside. With the door open, the noise from the bar was also clearly heard well into late afternoon. Whilst reception was apologetic, and on several occasions closed the door, other staff from the bar kept opening it using the plant pot and, in addition, did not attempt to enforce any of the non smoking signs on the tables. On the raising this matter in the morning on checking out, I was given some weak excuse about some other door? not working / broken for some time and that this was their normal practice!

Great hotel, noisy area at times. Excellent hotel, great rooms and food. Shame the kicking out time for the pub opposite was soo noisy though. Woke up at 1, 2 and 3am to shouting and fighting.

The positives first. A great central location. Easy walk from the train station. Staff was great. The beds/bedding were very comfortable. Super soft robes and a lighted vanity were great perks. The only negative was the room location. We were in 18 which faced the street (jackhammering going on until 9:30pm). This is obviously not the hotels fault. However, this room is next to the staff room, an office and an exterior door. Every time one of those doors was open/closed/slammed it rattled our door/room. On the Tuesday after Easter, the staff was in and out of those doors no less than 30 times between 6am-7:30am. Unfortunately, no sleeping in that morning. The doors opened significantly less the following morning so it was better but still disruptive. Also, the kitchen is on the other side of the room, so you also had the noise of the carts bringing supplies to it. I understand it’s an old building and noises will be heard, but truly the staff should be more mindful to be quiet when going in and out of the staff/office rooms and the exterior door.